Description

	JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents
Homepage:	http://pdfbox.apache.org/
License:	Apache License v2.0

According to the PDFBox website: "The Apache PDFBox™ library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0".

Although a range of these facilities may prove useful for preservation purposes, such as PDF debugging or extracting text, it the Preflight component that supports the validation of a PDF against the PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-1b standards that has attracted considerable interest from preservation practitioners (see below).

User Experiences

Identification of PDF preservation risks using the Preflight component of PDFBox in three parts: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Applied in an AQuA Mashup to address the preservation Issue: Detect, extract and analyse embedded objects in PDFs.
Successfully applied by the British Library for characterising PDFs.
Developed into a PDF long term risk detector at a SPRUCE hackathon.

Development Activity

Error in widget Ohloh Project: unable to write file /var/www/html/extensions/Widgets/compiled_templates/wrt673f9d40998a45_60891298

Mailing Lists

Apache PDFBox provides different mailing lists to get in contact with the community.

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Release Feed

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Activity Feed

Apache PDFBox uses JIRA to track the development process.

2024-11-21 20:45:12: Nick Couchman commented on davidrossi: Could you please test with the latest version of Guacamole...; by Nick Couchmanhttps://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=vnickvnickhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person
2024-11-21 20:44:48: ASF GitHub Bot updated a link from Caleb Rackliffe commented on Caleb Rackliffe attached one file to Matthias J. Sax commented on ableegoldman – you might want to chime in on current discussion...; by Matthias J. Saxhttps://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mjsaxmjsaxhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person
2024-11-21 20:33:15: Anonymous User changed the status to Patch Available on LUCENE-857...; by Anonymous Useranonymoushttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person
2024-11-21 20:33:08: Anonymous User changed the status to Patch Available on LUCENE-922...; by Anonymous Useranonymoushttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person

Apache PDFBox

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